Old Men In Love

Old Men In LoveMen in Love, like The Arabian Nights, is about a storyteller whose stories contain other stories. As in Alasdair Gray's Lanark, 1982 Janine, Poor Things, and The Book of Prefaces, this one has many styles of narrative and location. Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset mingle with Britain under the New Labour Party, viewed from the West End of Glasgow. More than 50% is fact and the rest possible, but must be read to be believed.

Devoting a chapter to each day of the infamous 'July Crisis'

Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul

but everyone attends

she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape

humour and happiness

The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionising biology and medicine

and discover facts about Star Wars culture

The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd

In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball

Five gymnasts

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